thomas gatrell

I missed This movie when it first came out , I was living abroad for 4 years and somehow it escaped me . Here we are in 2020 and I sat through the 3 hours of this very long film plus all the commercial breaks that one cannot escape on the TV these days but i think that even had I watched this movie at the cinema I would still have been disappointed at the low volume mumblings of the charactors which made understanding the scientific elements even more difficult . Yes we could all pick this film to pieces , it does try hard to become believable but somehow I lost the plot when they successfully arrived at Matt Damon's pad. Did i see his planetary base camp with several people -- (scientific pioneer colleagues) moving around ?--after that shot, one never sees it again and then all hell lets lose and there,s a fight and Mat Damon wants to take control of everything ?--nothing after that added up very much and high risk improbability took over as if a small boy had re-written the script . Oh, how I was so disappointed after all that nonsense which just let down the brilliant special effects . 2001 is still by far the most incredible science fiction film ever made considering the year it was produced , long before computers were available to mainstream society. Sadly,watching interstellar just makes me miss 2001 even more , and I must have watched that at least 15 times!! and is actually more compelling to watch with a real sense of drama and tension . Unfortunately, Interstellar would not make it into my favourite top 10 science fiction movies. There are plenty to choose from with a plausible scientific approach to the reality of our existence in this wondrous universe. Walt Disney's 'The Black Hole' was more entertaining ,(smile) and if that sounds a little harsh, there,s always The Martian, 2010, The Red Planet, etc etc . Like some reviews on this movie , i agree that the early scenes were totally wrong and that the placing of cooper who, inadvertently turns up at the gates of the NASA secret establishment in the dark only to be handed the keys of his earlier career as the best pilot in the cosmos as probably something stolen from a Dan Dare comic . I wont say that this is the worst sci fi movie that I've seen , far from it . I think Independence Day stole that accolade a long time ago , but that's Hollywood for you. Long live sci fi and God bless everyone . Best wishes from the UK